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Verzeihung, Sie verfallen in «Nationalbolschewismus», indem 
Sie Deutschland für die einzige Nation in der Welt betrachten.
2)
And if the bourgeoisie (in Bulgaria, in Germany, in other countries) begins a war against England, France, or something of the sort?
What should workers do?
Boycott it? That would be quite mistaken. Participate, but preserve their independence and exploit the common struggle in such a way as to overthrow the bourgeoisie.
NN = Either write only against German national-Bolshevism, or do not write at all.

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Translation

1) Formulated too generally, as though it applies to all peoples. But what of contemporary Persia?
Forgive me, you are falling into "national-Bolshevism," regarding Germany as the only nation in the world.

2) And if the bourgeoisie (in Bulgaria, Germany, and in other countries) begins a war against England, France, or something similar?
What then should workers do?
Boycott it? That would be quite mistaken. Participate, but preserve their independence and so exploit the joint struggle in order to overthrow the bourgeoisie.

SS* = Either write only against German national-Bolshevism, or do not write at all.

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LETTER TO THE CENTRAL BUREAU OF JEWISH SECTIONS AT THE CC OF THE RCP(b)

July 1920

It would be necessary (on the basis of data from Rafes and others) to formulate an additional thesis**, approximately as follows:

The experience of the proletarian dictatorship in Ukraine in those parts of it where, in particular, a mixed population is observed, as well as in Belarus (and...?+? Hungary?), has shown that national strife disappears not only in the form of pogroms, from which even the most democratic bourgeois republic does not shield [us], but also in the form of petty, yet all-pervasive bickering, almost entirely. The causes of this:

1) the interest, attention, and all the spiritual forces of workers and laboring peasants are entirely absorbed by the great struggle against the bourgeoisie, which struggle unites the laboring people of all nations;

2) the dictatorship of the proletariat suppresses the freedom of action of the bourgeoisie, the petty bourgeoisie, and the bourgeois intelligentsia, whose freedom means the utilization of their forces, influence, and knowledge by the bourgeoisie for kindling class strife.

Is it not possible to add concrete facts?

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LETTER TO MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOUR AND DEFENCE

End of July 1920

The Poles' peace proposal gives us occasion to utilize more systematically the troops designated for transfer from the Caucasus Front to the Western Front. Therefore, I propose to the Council of Defence the following resolution:

1. The troops of the Caucasus Front are to proceed on foot through all of Ukraine, calculating the route such that to **each** volost (out of approximately 1,900 volosts in Ukraine) there should come **twice**, at a fixed interval of time, first a cavalry unit, then an infantry unit, for the execution of (and then **verification of the execution of**) the following tasks:

a) collection of foodstuffs (according to the requisition levy);

b) compilation on the spot, that is, in each village, under the protection of local peasants and under their responsibility, of a **double** stock of foodstuffs (as against the requisition levy) (gathered in a granary, in the house of a priest, landowner, wealthy man, etc.).

The purpose of this double stock is a fund for barter exchange: from this stock grain will be taken from peasants **after** providing local peasants with goods—Russian and foreign—**by agreement** with local peasants;

c) compilation (and verification) of a list of "responsible" peasants (from local wealthy men; from above, that is, according to the degree of greatest wealth, 5—20% etc. of householders in each village, depending on its size).

* SS—Summa summarum—total sum.
** This concerns additions to the theses on the national and colonial questions at the II Congress of the Comintern, which took place in July—August 1920.

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